Season greetings: 2016 year in review.

Dear Chessable learners! It has been an incredible year. Before it comes to an end, I wanted to send our best wishes and biggest thanks out to all of you. Your support and feedback have made all of what we’ve achieved possible. We look forward to seeing you in the new year, and for now, […]

The Openings of Magnus Carlsen

Openings of the World Champion When I started studying chess seriously, I started with the games of the World Champion at the time, Garry Kasparov. I read several books about his championship matches and the openings he played (and like a typical fan played them myself). Kasparov’s approach was to find the sharpest, most critical […]

Co-founder IM John Bartholomew in London

As part of Chessable’s Crowdcube crowdfunding campaign, this week we put on a couple of events. The first one saw co-founder, IM John Bartholomew play against 25 opponents in a timed simultaneous exhibition. John put on a fine performance in his first ever simul outside the US and finished with a score of 17.5 to […]